Marine Electronics

On May 1, President Clinton announced that the selective availability (SA) system used to degrade GPS (global positioning system) signals was terminated, effective at...

Perhaps it was somebodys idea of a joke. Who walks away from their boat and leaves the engine running? But when I climbed back...

Perhaps nothing on boats has developed as steadily and soundly as line-holding devices—cams, clams, jams, clutches, stoppers and plain old horned cleats.There were some...

Perhaps nothing on boats has developed as steadily and soundly as line-holding devices—cams, clams, jams, clutches, stoppers and plain old horned cleats.There were some...

Of seven models, the Si-Tex Nautilus earns a Best Buy, but the Shipmate CE40 is the one we’d most like to own.

Practical Sailor’s editor-at-large, Nick Nicholson, writing in the Offshore Log in the May 1999 issue, discussed a breakdown of Calypso’s high-output alternator.Because such alternators...

Of seven models, the Si-Tex Nautilus earns a Best Buy, but the Shipmate CE40 is the one we’d most like to own.

A close examination of each charting program favors Visual Navigation Suite’s vector charts over The Cap’n’s raster charts.

A close examination of each charting program favors Visual Navigation Suite’s vector charts over The Cap’n’s raster charts.

Our years of sailing in New England and the Caribbean, with their stable, predictable weather patterns, left us ill-prepared to deal with the vagaries...